I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I don't have a college degree.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

The future is a direction, not a destination.

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.